MULTI-LEVEL PARKING FOR SHOPPING MALLS IN PORT HARCOURT
TAMUNOSEIPRIALA Noble Okumgba
Department of Architecture
Post Graduate School, Rivers State University, Nigeria
Email: nob4fresh@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Due to the socio-economic advantages of shopping malls and the rise of the middle class and advancement in the retail sector of Nigeria, the development of shopping malls has been on the increase in Nigeria. While locating shopping malls in city centres on the positive achieve high visibility and accessibility, on the negative it attracts heavy traffic, which congests the transportation network and also generates a high number of accidents due to the necessarily large number of turns. Addressing this challenge is to use alternative parking to surface parking in shopping malls. Owing to the topographic and climatic condition of Port Harcourt metropolis, multilevel parking is best alternative to address the traffic congestion created by shopping mall traffic.